Kelly Kreth
Contributing writer
Contributing writer Kelly Kreth has been a freelance journalist, essayist, and columnist for more than two decades. Her real estate articles have appeared in The Real Deal, Luxury Listings, Our Town, and amNewYork. A long-time New York City renter who loves a good deal, Kreth currently lives in a coveted rent-stabilized apartment in a luxury building on the Upper East Side.
Posts by Kelly Kreth:
‘Premature,’ a raw story about young love in Harlem, keeps the real estate true to life
By Kelly Kreth
March 4, 2020 - 15:00 PM
“Premature” is a newly released movie co-written by Rashaad Ernesto Green and Zora Howard, who stars as Ayanna, a 17-year-old aspiring poet that falls in love with an older man, Isaiah (Joshua Boone). The couple first locks eyes on the subway headed to 145th and Broadway, and everything about their love affair rings true, from the couple’s furtive glances, initial shyness, and later, immature fits of jealousy.
Read More From the East Village to Brooklyn Heights: Leaving a tenement share for a co-op with charm
By Kelly Kreth
March 4, 2020 - 09:00 AM
Here's the tale of the San Francisco transplant who loved living in the East Village, until she grew out of her a cramped apartment on the fourth floor of a walkup in the East Village and decamped for a bigger and quieter apartment in a Brooklyn Heights mansion.
Read More I live next to a world-class dance institution. It changed my sons’ lives
By Kelly Kreth
March 3, 2020 - 10:00 AM
Life with two young and active boys in a New York City apartment was hard at times, but taking dance classes at Alvin Ailey next door made all the difference.
Read More ‘The Photograph’ tells a love story, but the movie's real obsession is NYC real estate porn
By Kelly Kreth
February 26, 2020 - 13:00 PM
“The Photograph” is a new movie from Universal starring Issa Rae that stumbles in showing how New Yorkers live.
Read More I lived next to and worked for a church in NYC—it gave me the freedom to be myself
By Kelly Kreth
February 24, 2020 - 16:30 PM
Vladyslav moved to NYC for his job at the Russian Orthodox Church without knowing English, and although his job only lasted six months, he fell in love with NYC—in more ways than one—and so decided to stay.
Read More I live above a NYC subway station—it’s noisy and hectic, but I have no plans to leave
By Kelly Kreth
February 18, 2020 - 12:00 PM
Tierney and her boyfriend rented a two bedroom in Williamsburg, sight unseen. On move-in day, they realized the apartment was above the busy Marcy Avenue subway station.
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